KiCad silently crashes when Windows locks
KiCad crashes silently when Windows locks while the schematic editor is open, and users cannot tell how to report the crash.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 2 October 2026 · last reported 2 October 2026
What's going wrong
An engineer who task-switches a lot found KiCad had vanished from the taskbar after the Windows session locked with the schematic editor open.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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